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#61 Time to understand how you work

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Getting things done doesn’t need to be a lifelong struggle. In my pursuit of trying to find the differences between what makes me addicted to work vs able to procrastinate for so long I seriously consider moving in with my grandma and quitting everything, I’ve recently discovered a brilliant framework for determining just why I can be a productivity queen on some tasks and a bratty toddler on the next. Let me share it. Turns out, a major predictor of our chance to want to do (and eventually do) something, is our personal response to internal and external expectations: Internal expectations: an expectation, rule, deadline, request you have for yourself External expectations: an expectation, rule, deadline, request other people have for you If you figure out your ideal expectation language, you figure out how to get yourself to want to do things (more or less). Gretchen Rubin came up with 4 categories of people based on this distinction, pick yours and motivate accordingly. If yo

Getting things done doesn’t need to be a lifelong struggle. In my pursuit of trying to find the differences between what makes me addicted to work vs able to procrastinate for so long I seriously consider moving in with my grandma and quitting everything, I’ve recently discovered a brilliant framework for determining just why I can be a productivity queen on some tasks and a bratty toddler on the next. Let me share it. Turns out, a major predictor of our chance to want to do (and eventually do) something, is our personal response to internal and external expectations: Internal expectations: an

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